paganism and pantheism, is to worship
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2025 4:51 am
Lastly, if God is Mother, creation is 'birthed' rather than made out of nothing by God our Father. This concept is strong within Wiccan beliefs. Therefore, creation is no longer limited to being simply good, as described in Genesis, but 'divine.' The essence of New Age, a modern form of "Sacred Creation." The Church teaches differently of course, as explained in the CCC:
295 We believe that God created the world according to his wisdom. (Cf. Wis 9:9.) It is not the product of any necessity whatever, nor of blind fate or chance. We believe that it proceeds from God's free will; he wanted to make his creatures share in his being, wisdom, and goodness: "For you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created." (Rev 4:11.) Therefore the brother cell phone list Psalmist exclaims: "O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all"; and "The LORD is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made." (Ps 104:24; 145:9.)
God creates "out of nothing"
296 We believe that God needs no pre-existent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of necessary emanation from the divine substance. (Cf. Dei Filius, can. 2-4: DS 3022-3024.) God creates freely "out of nothing": (Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800; cf. DS 3025.)
299 Because God creates through wisdom, his creation is ordered: "You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight." (Wis 11:20.) The universe, created in and by the eternal Word, the "image of the invisible God," is destined for and addressed to man, himself created in the "image of God" and called to a personal relationship with God. (Col 1:15; Gen 1:26) Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of his creation, though not without great effort and only in a spirit of humility and respect before the Creator and his work. (Cf. Ps 19:2-5; Job 42:3.) Because creation comes forth from God's goodness, it shares in that goodness - "And God saw that it was good ... very good" (Gen 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 31.) - for God willed creation as a gift addressed to man, an inheritance destined for and entrusted to him. On many occasions the Church has had to defend the goodness of creation, including that of the physical world. (Cf. DS 286; 455-463; 800; 1333; 3002.)
295 We believe that God created the world according to his wisdom. (Cf. Wis 9:9.) It is not the product of any necessity whatever, nor of blind fate or chance. We believe that it proceeds from God's free will; he wanted to make his creatures share in his being, wisdom, and goodness: "For you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created." (Rev 4:11.) Therefore the brother cell phone list Psalmist exclaims: "O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all"; and "The LORD is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made." (Ps 104:24; 145:9.)
God creates "out of nothing"
296 We believe that God needs no pre-existent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of necessary emanation from the divine substance. (Cf. Dei Filius, can. 2-4: DS 3022-3024.) God creates freely "out of nothing": (Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800; cf. DS 3025.)
299 Because God creates through wisdom, his creation is ordered: "You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight." (Wis 11:20.) The universe, created in and by the eternal Word, the "image of the invisible God," is destined for and addressed to man, himself created in the "image of God" and called to a personal relationship with God. (Col 1:15; Gen 1:26) Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of his creation, though not without great effort and only in a spirit of humility and respect before the Creator and his work. (Cf. Ps 19:2-5; Job 42:3.) Because creation comes forth from God's goodness, it shares in that goodness - "And God saw that it was good ... very good" (Gen 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 31.) - for God willed creation as a gift addressed to man, an inheritance destined for and entrusted to him. On many occasions the Church has had to defend the goodness of creation, including that of the physical world. (Cf. DS 286; 455-463; 800; 1333; 3002.)